Leftist professors and the marketplace of ideas

Re “UCLA Alumni Group Is Tracking ‘Radical’ Faculty,� Jan. 18

I have noticed that the right wing always claims that professors are indoctrinating students into leftism. What seems to go unmentioned in response are two obvious points.

First, if we were doing so, recent election results show we haven’t been too successful. Second, it isn’t that we have been indoctrinating anyone.

The right wing is so used to total lock-step agreement that it can’t conceive of the possibility that liberal professors don’t indoctrinate their students. In other words, they might try looking in the mirror.

MICHAEL GREEN

Professor of History

Community College of

Southern Nevada

Las Vegas

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It’s about time someone took on these public universities and their radical professors with lifetime jobs, running their mouths out of any supervisory or citizen control.

These universities still operate as if they were in the Stone Age. They must be required by law to publish every lecture in every class and faculty meeting on campus. Then it would not be necessary to pay students to provide the information.

WINFIELD J. ABBE

Athens, Ga.

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Evidently the students compiling a list of UCLA professors have never heard of the concept of the free marketplace of ideas, the hallmark of a great university.

ROXANE WINKLER

Sherman Oaks